Heather Paxson

The Life of Cheese (eBook, ePUB)

Crafting Food and Value in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. As "unfinished" commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses embody a mix of new and old ideas about taste and value. By exploring the life of cheese, Paxson helps rethink the politics of food, land, and labor today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520954021
• Artikelnr.: 37826825

Autorenporträt

Heather Paxson, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece (UC Press).